She picked up his arm and placed her hand over the scar. "My bites don't wound and they don't leave scars."
"We'll see about that, won't we?"
She kissed his hand before she released it and soaped her hair. Was there any way to get through to him?
Then again, did she really blame him for his skepticism? How much could one person be hurt in his lifetime and continue to believe that not everyone was out to screw him? Sin was allowed to mistrust. The gods knew he'd earned it.
Sin forced himself to move away from Kat. Trying not to stay focused on the way the water cascaded over her body, he turned on the second showerhead, then yelped as he was pelted by ice-cold water.
Kat laughed before she stepped aside. "I will share, sweetie."
He paused at her endearment and the way it pierced him straight through his heart. "Sweetie?"
"Yeah?"
He didn't know why something that stupid touched him, but it did. "You are the first person in history to apply that term to me."
"Yeah, well, the others must not have known you all that well." She reached out and put a dab of soap on the tip of his nose.
Laughing, he pulled her against him and pinned her to the wall before he nipped her chin. And in that one moment, he realized he was in paradise. The feel of her soft, slick skin on his with the hot water pelting down his back and the sound of her laughter in his ears...
There couldn't be a better moment than this to be had. And he wanted to savor it. If he still had his powers, he'd stop time and make this last for eternity.
But instead of eternity, he heard someone banging on the bathroom door.
"Yo, boss!"
Releasing Kat, Sin stepped back at the intrusion of Kish's voice on his happiness. "There better be something going on worth your life, Kish. Because if there isn't, I'm going to kill you."
"We need you downstairs, right now. There's a demon eating a tourist!"
Sin flashed himself out of the shower and into clothes before he snatched open the door to find Kish standing in the hallway.
"What?"
"Downstairs, boss, now. Gallu eating people."
It wasn't in Sin to follow anyone's orders, but for once he didn't question it. He did just what Kish said-he went straight downstairs.
As soon as he was in the casino, it was easy to find the gallu. Even though the gallu looked human, his true demon form was reflected in the mirrors around them. There was chaos everywhere. People were screaming and running for the doors. Stools were overturned and the human employees were joining the patrons while the Daimons and Apollites were trying to cover those who fled.
And that was why he used them in his casino. Unlike human help, they could be relied on to stay calm in a crisis and to assist in the event something "unnatural" happened. Credit had to be given to the Apollites and Daimons. They seldom panicked.
Sin turned away from the doors to the back corner.
It appeared Damien and his guards had the gallu trapped by one of the roulette wheels-although "trapped" might be more hopeful than true. Sin reached the demon just as he grabbed one of the guards and bit into him. Luckily he was a Daimon and not human-at least that was the thought until the Daimon turned instantly into a gallu.
Holy shit. Their metabolism sped up the change. Whereas a human took about a day to complete their conversion. Daimons were virtually instantaneous.
Oh, the things you learned when you ran a casino...
Now they had two gallu to fight.
Damien took his suit jacket off. "Cover their heads so they can't bite you, and beat the shit out of them."
"Screw you!" one of the Daimon guards shouted before he ran toward the door.
So much for not panicking...